Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

Martin Luther King, Jr. was known to have modeled his civil rights movement after the nonviolence of Mahatma Gandhi. Those are the kinds of comparisons students will be expected to be able to make in order to fulfill this Common Core Standard. They will also have to be able to point out what it means if something was "as horrific as the trenches of World War I" or what it means for a person to be a fascist or a Jackson Democrat. This standard basically asks students to take the knowledge they already know about non-literature stuff and apply it to different non-literature stuff.